The room was quiet, Zhu Houzhao didn't speak, Ding Si didn't speak, neither of them knew how to speak, and after a long time, they heard Zhu Houzhao's faint voice: "Ding Zhutou, you said that the emperor wanted me to become a Mingjun, so tell me, what is Mingjun?" ”

Ding Si was stunned, he didn't know how to answer this question for a while, and after a while, he hesitated and said: "The joy of the world first, the worries of the world after the worries of the world, take the people and the people as their own responsibility, know people well, love the people like sons, I think doing these is Mingjun." ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing after hearing it, as if he had heard some joke, in Ding Si's inexplicable eyes, Zhu Houzhao said proudly: "If you want to say this, this emperor is too easy to do, squeezing out a worried look all day long, and saying high-sounding words on his lips, so he is Mingjun." His voice changed, and his voice was low and powerful: "Let me tell you about the Ming Jun in history, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, who unified the six countries and reformed the habits, which can be described as the Ming Jun; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was eloquent and strategic, repelled the Huns, and could be described as a Ming monarch; Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was open-minded and obedient, and he could be described as a wise man. The so-called Ming Jun must first be a strong man, hot-blooded, ambitious, capable, not afraid of gossip, and not burdened by fame. The so-called Ming Jun must have a distinct personality, not that people say long and long, and people say short and short. When he said this, he said proudly, "I don't think I've done a bad job." ”

After listening to Zhu Houzhao's long words, Ding Si was speechless, and he suddenly found that the Zhu Houzhao he knew and knew were all Zhu Houzhao who was passed down from everyone around, and he never knew what kind of person Zhu Houzhao was.

At this time, I heard Zhu Houzhao's slightly tired voice sound: "Since the Queen Mother sent you to ask me about this, this is also a matter on her mind, let me tell you about the situation back then." His eyes were deep, as if he had returned to the situation when Zhu Youzhu died, Ding Si heard him say with a little melancholy: "In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, I was not yet fifteen years old at that time, the first emperor died of a sudden illness, the first thing I did when I ascended the throne was to investigate the matter thoroughly, the first emperor was my father after all, how could I let him die in vain?" ”

At this time, there was a sudden loud roar in the leopard room, it turned out that the tiger had eased up just now, and at this time he was looking at Zhu Houzhao and Ding Si outside the cage with high spirits. Ding Si was taken aback, and when he saw a tiger in the cage, he couldn't help but sigh that Zhu Houzhao was ridiculous. Zhu Houzhao didn't seem to hear this cry at all, he suddenly looked up at Ding Si, and asked, "Since you are a friend of the former emperor, you should know that he is close to Li Guang, right?" ”

Of course, Ding Si knew that Li Guang was a eunuch in the palace, and was later favored by Zhu Youji, so he gradually led Zhu Youzhu to do some things about fasting and smelting, and it turned out that there were a few times when he happened to have a coincidence, and when he asked for rain, he just got the rain, and he asked for good luck, Zhu Youzhi was convinced that Li Guang was a person of magic, and Li Guang was quite clever, and he had been serving carelessly. Unexpectedly, Li Guang was arrogant, and from time to time did some corruption and bribery, Ding Si had admonished Zhu Youzhu at that time, but he didn't think that Li Guang would be angry after knowing it, and he colluded with Zhang Yanling, Di Chuchen and others to frame Ding Si, and also intended to put him to death, and then Li Guang was defeated, Zhu Youzhu sent someone to search his house, and found an account book, which clearly recorded the account of his bribery, Zhu Youzhu was furious, and made someone behead Li Guang.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao mentioned Li Guang's name, and couldn't help but let Ding Si fall into the memories of the past again, and the tiger in the cage roared again, pulling Ding Si back to reality from the past, and he said to Zhu Houzhao calmly: "Not only do I know, there is still a grudge between me and him." ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't care about what old things were between Ding Si and Li Guang, he asked straightforwardly: "Back then, Li Guang was clever and tricked the emperor into alchemy, have you ever heard of it?" ”

Ding Si was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment before slowly saying, "I only heard that Li Guang was very favored by the first emperor, and I never heard the first emperor mention the matter of cultivating pills. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao sighed and said: "You haven't heard the emperor mention it, so you don't know that the emperor has some deficiencies because he was born in a cold palace, and Li Guangjin said that the pill taught by Li Guangjin has the effect of prolonging life and strengthening the body, so the emperor was confused for a while, so he followed and took some pills, this is a secret matter in the palace, I didn't know about it originally, but I only knew about it when I interrogated the eunuch Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai, the judge of the Tai Hospital. He sighed and said with some indignation: "Back then, Emperor Qin and Han Wu, although he was extremely brave and talented, but unfortunately he sought immortality in vain, and as a result, he took the elixir indiscriminately and gave his life in vain. Taoists say that 'if you seek external things to strengthen yourself', and think that Jindan can strengthen the yuan, it is nonsense, why do so many people believe this statement? There seemed to be a little anger and helplessness in his words.

Ding Si was silent, as if he was not too shocked by what Zhu Houzhao said, his eyes seemed to be clear, but he covered up too many things, and he couldn't see it clearly.

Zhu Houzhao broke through this matter, and simply picked it out and said: "I know that the former emperor had a very good reputation when he was alive, although he favored Li Guang back then, everyone was quite complaining, but in line with the idea of being a fool of the Venerable, everyone did not dare to spread it more, and they all said that Li Guang was too cunning, so he misled the emperor, but no one thought about it, if the Venerable was not confused, why would he be deceived by the dreadlocks?" ”

His words obviously accused Zhu Youzhu of being credulous, although the meaning of his words was good, but Ding Si was a little unlistenable, no matter what, the son did not say anything about the father, Zhu Houzhao actually said it lightly and skillfully in the words, which made Ding Si feel unhappy, he was angry for a while, and couldn't help blurting out: "The emperor favored his father-in-law Liu Jin back then, is it also confused for a while?" After he finished speaking, he felt that there was a bit of a mistake, Liu Jin was Zhu Houzhao's most favored father-in-law back then, and he had always turned his hands and rained his hands, and later was accused of being disobedient, Zhu Houzhao hardened his heart and executed him, no one dared to advance in front of Zhu Houzhao, today Ding Si said it in anger, but as soon as the words came out, he was ready to wait for Zhu Houzhao's anger.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao was not embarrassed, he glanced at Ding Si, there was disdain and indifference in his eyes, and then said lightly: "Liu Jin is notorious, but does anyone remember the rice penalty he did back then?" It turned out that in order to crack down on official dereliction of duty and corruption, Liu Jin specially imposed a fine of rice, and strictly enforced the law, never following selfishness.

Ding Si was stunned, and then heard Zhu Houzhao say calmly: "When there was a famine in Zhejiang, he reduced forced labor, paid taxes lightly, and allocated silver for disaster relief, but everyone forgot about it, right?" He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say a few more things, but in the end he was a little bored, and glanced at Ding Si with pity and said: "He is a eunuch, but he strictly forbids the eunuch dictatorship, but only reuses Jiao Fang, Liu Yu, Cao Yuan, Bi Heng, Zhu En and others, do you know why?" ”

Ding Si was at a loss when he asked this, and when Ding Si was ambiguous, he suddenly saw Zhu Houzhao bow slightly, stared at himself and said, "Ding Si, don't be too gullible about what others say, there are many things behind this that you don't know." He seemed to say with some sneer: "The emperor's position is not easy to sit in, he will only worry about it and be tired to death in the end, how can he stabilize this country without some skills and strategies, if he can't sit steadily, how can he talk about the people?" ”

For some reason, Ding Si was a little shocked after hearing his words for no reason, and he looked at Zhu Houzhao's fearless and youthful face, as if he had never known this perverse and unscrupulous emperor.